How to Create a Healthy Worship Culture for Your Team

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But what does that look like in your local expression? While all churches subscribe to this vision, each individual community is unique in its expression. If that is clear in your culture, you can move onto defining your worship team culture. If it’s not, work with your Lead Pastor to make sure this is well defined. Get behind it, or get out. Don’t push your own agenda in your local community. Get behind the vision and serve it with all your heart.

Once the local expression of a worship culture is clearly defined, it’s time to hash out your Worship Ministry Culture. Look at this as a set of values. This is what defines who you are. Once these values are defined, you can filter all your systems and structures through that vision.

What Are Your Worship Ministry Values?

Here’s an example:

WE ARE:

  • Discipleship Minded
  • God Centered
  • Excellence Focused
  • Spirit Led
  • Community Driven

This is a well defined culture. Of course, yours will look a bit different. But that’s not enough. Here is where most ministries get off track. They create values and write them in calligraphy on the wall. They create plaques and hang them everywhere. But it never filters down into daily actions.

So here’s the questions:

How does this overarching culture filter into your:

  • Audition process
  • Dress code
  • Rehearsal
  • Communication on stage
  • Team nights
  • Devos
  • Worship sound (guitar, keys, vocals, etc)
  • Stage presence
  • Song choice
  • Songwriting
  • Developing leaders

The list could goes on. But this is how you define culture. This needs to be communicated and it needs to be protected. Otherwise, everyone else on your team will define it for you and that is called a hot mess!

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A well defined and protected worship culture creates disciples and removes the wrong people. That may sound harsh. But not everyone is suited to be a member on your team, whether paid or volunteer. Part of pastoral work is helping people find their place. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s on your team. Saying “no” to someone can actually create an opportunity for them to find the right spot. Too many teams are accommodating everyone and destroying their culture. This is the definition of drama.

Connect with your lead pastor. Define the cultural values. Filter your systems through those values. Communicate it. Repeat and protect. Repeat and protect.

How has a worship culture been developed in your context? How connected are you to your lead pastor’s vision? What do you need to work on?

I’d love to hear more about your worship culture in the comments.

 

This article on how to create a worship culture originally appeared here.

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David Santistevanhttp://www.davidsantistevan.com/
David is a Worship Pastor at Allison Park Church in Pittsburgh, PA.

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